Apologie ou defense de l'honorable sentence & tres-juste execution de defuncte Marie Steuard derniere Royne d'Ecosse : Enrichie de plusieurs exemples par comparaisons & diverses histoires d'empereurs, rois & papes ci devant aduenues : Auec les opinions d'hommes entendus en tel cas ... Ensemble aussi la response à certaines obiections ... Aprez la fin du liure sont adioustées les copies des lettres, actes & articles, qui servent à découuir & à bien verifier la trahison de ladite Royne d'Ecosse &c ...
A 1588 French-language defence of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, attributed to Maurice Kyffin and printed by John Windet, with a supposed Paris imprint, written to justify the sentence against her with historical examples and printed appendices of letters and articles. The pictures are four woodcut historiated initials in the printer's stock: a large decorative E or D with interlaced scrollwork, a leafy initial F with a cherub-like face, an I flanked by two grotesque bearded figures, and a P framed by foliage and arabesque scrolls, useful for designers seeking Renaissance letterforms and ornament.
